My Vintage Academy in Florence

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To place the archival legacy at the disposal of designers, researchers, stylists and professionals of the world of fashion through a digital online platform: this is the aim that Barbara Ricchi wants to reach through My Vintage Academy, a catalogue-archive of the accessories collected during 26 years of history within an Italian craftsmanship laboratory, created for the greatest designers of the world, that today became accessible through the Net.

The project presented today in Florence, at the Spazio Alcatraz of the Stazione Leopolda, during the Pitti Filati 72, and, on one side, it is related with the great craftsmanship heritage – the archive includes 36.000 belts created for the greatest house of fashion – but it is also strongly innovative.

The space has been set by Felice Limosani, that has expressly createdTears in Rain, a spectacular site specific performance, freely taken from Blade Runner and its atmospheres, full of visual and sound suggestions.

“I think the moment has come to give a valid instrument that contains all the products created by the union of the Italian creative intuition and the great ability of the most famous international designers, that form the excellence of Made in Italy" - said Barbara Ricchi, creator of MVA - "We really believe in this project: an archive that is ideally endless, where you can collect and keep the ideas, intuitions, suggestions, manufacturing and solutions that form the history and tradition of a wholly Italian way to work, in order to hand them on in the future”.